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Elizabethan Essays
by ELIOT, T.S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1934. Octavo, 195 pages. Original cloth, spine gilt; edges a little foxed, and with a couple of tiny spots internally; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little sunned and marked on the spine, and with a couple of tiny chips. Number 24 in the Faber Library series. This is a later issue of the first printing, with the misprint on the half-title corrected.
'Only the last essay, "John Marston", is printed here for the first time in book form; the others are reprinted from "Selected Essays" (1932)' (Gallup A27a, noting an edition of 4000 copies and a publication date of 4 October 1934).
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130617
- Title
- Elizabethan Essays
- Author
- ELIOT, T.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
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- Dustwrapper
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- Foxed
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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